Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 29815, Jonathan Fuller, Mass.

SERVICE
NUMBER
Mass.
Fuller, Jonathan
S 29815
CONTENTS

29815 Rev INVALID.
File No. 29815- Gen
Jonathan Stiller Rev Rev War
Act: James J. 89
Index:—Vol. 2, Page 126
[Arrangement of 1870.]

4878
Massachusetts
Jonathan Fuller
of Worcester in the State of Mass who was a Private in the Company commanded by Captain Thomas of the Regt. commanded by Col. Marshall in the Mass line for 10 months.
Inscribed on the Roll of Massachusetts at the rate of $53 - Dollars 33 Cents per annum, to commence on the 14th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 29 day of March 1833 and sent Hon. J. B. Stoddard House of Reps
Arrears to 14th of Sept. 1832 $79.99 Penzant. allowance ending 14 Mar 33 26.67 $106.66
{ Revolutionary Claim, } { Not June 7, 1832. }
Recorded by C. D. Adorn Clerk Book D Vol. 3 d Page 54

BRIEF objections to the admission of Pension Claims, of which those
answered in the negative, in red ink, will apply to the claim of
Jonathan Fuller further proof or explanation.
I. Does the declaration show where the applicant resides? yes II. Did the declarant make the declaration in the county where he resides? yes III. If the applicant did not make the declaration in the county where he resides, is there any reason assigned for his not doing so? C IV. Has the declarant mentioned the period or periods of the war when he served? yes V. * Has he mentioned with precision the length of his service, and the different grades in which he served, in language so definite as to enable the department to determine to what amount of pension he is entitled? yes VI. Has he given the names of the officers under whom he served, in conformity with the regulations? yes VII. Has he made a relinquishment of every claim to any other pension than the one under the Act of June 7, 1832? yes VIII. Has the Court given their opinion? yes IX. Has the Clerk given his certificate? yes X. Is the Clerk's seal affixed? And if so, has it a device or inscription by which it can be distinguished from any other seal? yes

XI. Has the applicant obtained the evidence of a clergyman and another respectable citizen as to their belief respecting his age and the general belief in his neighborhood relative to his revolutionary service? yes XII. If the clergyman's affidavit has not been produced, is there any reason assigned for not obtaining it? XIII. If the applicant has no documentary evidence, and has not obtained the testimony of at least one living witness, has he stated in his declaration that such proof cannot be had? a witness XIV. † If the applicant has produced a witness or witnesses as to his service, has the magistrate who administered the oath certified that he, she, or they are persons of credibility? yes Has the official character and signature of the magistrate been certified by the proper officer under his seal of office? yes XV. Does it appear from any of the papers that the witness was in such a situation, or of such an age, as to have a personal knowledge of the applicant's service? yes XVI. Are the papers authenticated as the regulations direct? yes XVII. Are the seven interrogatories prescribed by the War Department answered satisfactorily? And, if not, which of them is not so answered? S. B. 7.
EXPLANATORY NOTES.
* QUERE V. In a case where the applicant cannot, by reason of the loss of memory, state precisely how long he served, he should amend his declaration by making an affidavit in the following words:
"Personally appeared before me, the undersigned, a Justice of the Peace, &c. A. B. who, being duly sworn, deposeth and saith, that, by reason of old age, and the consequent loss of memory, he cannot swear positively as to the precise length of his service, but according to the best of his recollection he served not less than the periods mentioned below, and in the following grades: For _____ year _____ months and _____ days, I served as a _____. For _____ months and _____ days, I served as a _____; and for such service I claim a pension."

It is important in all cases to determine with precision the period for which the applicant served, and the particular rank he held, as the law directs the pension to be paid according to the grade of the pensioner and the length of his service. The use of the phrase about three or four months is too indefinite, and all such qualifying expressions are objectionable.
†QUERE XIV.  Proof of Service.
In a case where the name of the applicant is not found on the records of the Department, he must prove his service by two credible witnesses, who are required to set forth in their affidavits the time of the claimants entering the service, and the time and manner of his leaving the same, as well as the regiment, company, and line to which he belonged. The magistrate who may administer the oaths must certify to the credibility of the witnesses, and the official character and signature of the magistrate must be certified by the proper officer, under his seal of office.
†QUERE XVI.  Mode of authenticating papers.
In every instance where the certificate of the certifying officer who authenticated the papers is not written on the same sheet of paper which contains the affidavit, or other paper authenticated, the certificate must be attached thereto by a piece of tape or narrow ribbon, the end of which must pass under the seal of office of the certifying officer, so as to prevent any paper from being improperly attached to the certificate.

9695 Jonathan Fuller
Private
16 Months
adm
$55.33
so copy to Jan'y 23. 1837
Wm J. G. Kendall DR

9695
BRIEF in the case of Jonathan Fuller County of Worcester in the State of Massachusetts (Act 7th June, 1832.)
 1. Was the declaration made before a Court or a Judge? Court  2. If before a Judge, does it appear that the applicant is disabled by bodily infirmity? _____  3. How old is he? 79  4. State his service, as directed in the form annexed. 
   Period. Duration of Service. Rank. Names of General and Field Officers under whom he served.   Years, Months, Days.     enlisted In 1788 Spring — 5 — Private Gen. Capt. Benjamin Bates, Col. Holman   enlisted 1788 Spring — 2 — " Capt. Andrew Elliott Col. Whitney   enlisted 1778 June — 9 — " Capt. Thomas, Col. Marshall  
 5. In what battles was he engaged? none  6. Where did he reside when he entered the service? Worcester City Mass.  7. Is his statement supported by living witnesses, by documentary proof, by traditional evidence, by incidental evidence, or by the rolls? traditional & a witness  8. Are the papers defective as to form or authentication? and if so, in what respect? Correct 
I certify that the foregoing statement and the answers agree with the evidence in the case above mentioned.
W. A. D. [Signature] Examining Clerk. Jan. 23. 1833.

9695 Jonathan Sullens Declarations Andrew Parsons Defendant
Isaac Davis Worcester Mass. Attorney for Plaintiff

I Andrew Parsons of Vernon in the County of Windham and State of Vermont, now being in Charlton in the County of Worcester & Commonwealth of Massachusetts; do on oath testify and say say, that Jonathan Fuller of said Charlton was to my knowledge in the service of the United States in the war of the revolution as a soldier in Capt. Thomas' company and Col. Marshalls Regiment for the full term of nine months in one period of the same war, viz from June 1778 to March 1779 and did serve therein as a faithful soldier - That I served with him that term on the Continental establishment and Massachusetts line of the Army & belonged to the same eating mess with him, and I know he was regularly discharged from the service, that his name with mine and John Morris Jewell were inserted in the same discharge, and that said Jewell took it home with him. I further say I have no interest in the said Jonathan Fuller's application for a pension. -
Andrew Parsons
Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Worcester ss November 7 th 1818. Personally appeared Andrew Parsons and made solemn oath to the truth of the foregoing affidavit by him subscribed. And I further certify that the said Andrew Parsons is a disinterested and credible witness. -
Wm. Stedman Justice of the Peace. -
Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Worcester ss. I Abijah Bigelow, Clerk of the Judicial Courts, holden within and for the County of Worcester, do hereby certify, that William Stedman, Esquire, on the 7 th day of November A.D. 1818. was a Justice of the Peace within and for said County, that he has since deceased, and that his signature to the above certificate of the oath by him administered to the above named Andrew Parsons, I have no doubt was in his own proper hand writing.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the County Seal, this twenty ninth day of August in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty two.
Abijah Bigelow, Clk.

DECLARATION, in order to secure the benefit of the Act of Congress, passed June 7, 1832.
COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS.
COUNTY OF WORCESTER, ss.
Jonathan Fuller
ON this Sixth day of September in the year of our Lord, eighteen hundred and thirty two personally appeared in open Court, before William Russell Judge of Probate etc as Probate Court now sitting Worcester a resident of Charlton in the County of Worcester and Commonwealth of Massachusetts, aged sixty  seventy nine years, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath make the following declaration, in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress, passed June 7th 1832.
THAT he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers and served as herein stated.
He states that he was born in Oxford in the County of Worcester on the 11th day of August - about 1753 - & his exact age is recorded in the Town Clerks Office of that Town - The first time he went into the service he was living in Oxford in the County of Worcester - in year 1780 - he removed to Charlton which has been his residing place ever since - the same Spring the British left Boston - he states he enlisted into Capt Benjamin Gates Company - which was in Col Holmans Regiment - the company marched to New York - where he remained with Capt Gates's Company - during the term of his enlistment which was for five months - he states that he does not know any one living who can testify to this period of his service - he states that he was verbally discharged by his commanding Officer - he then returned to Oxford in Worcester County - the next Spring he states he enlisted for two months into Capt Andrew Elliott's Company - & marched from Oxford to Providence Rhode Island - this Company was attached to Col Whitney's Regiment - the company to which he was attached marched to North Kingston in Rhode Island - where he remained till his term of enlistment expired - he again returned to Oxford - he states that he does not know of any person living who can testify to his services during this enlistment - he states that in June 1778 - he enlisted as a soldier into Capt Thomas's Company - & Col Marshalls Regiment for the term of nine months - he states that he marched first to Fiskdale in New York - then to Kings Ferry - but the greatest portion of the time was spent in a place called West Point in New York - he states he remained his full time out & that he did not personally receive a discharge - he states that he was discharged in March 1779 - he states that Andrew Parsons was knowing to the services performed by him during the last enlistment & gave his deposition - in 1818. to that effect which will accompany this declaration - he states that he does not now know whether such Parsons is living or not - He mentions the Rev John Willes & Col Samuel D. Sprague his neighbors who can testify as to his reputation for truth & veracity - & that he is reputed & believed to be a soldier of the Revolution - Time of service sixteen months
He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present, and declares that his name is not on the pension roll of the agency of any state.
Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid.
Jonathan Fuller
Before me Nathl Greene Esq. of Probate in the County of Worcester

We John Wilder Jun a Clergyman residing in the Town of Charlton and Samuel D. Spurr residing in Worcester, B. & H. T. of Charlton hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Jonathan Putnam who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration, that we believe him to be seventy nine years of age, that he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood where he resides, to have been a soldier of the revolution, and we concur in that opinion.
Sworn and subscribed the day and year aforesaid Nathl. Farnes Judge of Probate for the county of Worcester
John Wilder Jr. Samuel D. Spurr
And the said court do hereby declare their opinion, after the investigation of the matter, and after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the War Department, that the above mentioned applicant was a revolutionary soldier, and served as he states.
And the court further certifies, that it appears to them that John Wilder Jun who signed the preceding certificate, is a clergyman, resident in the Town of Charlton and that Samuel D. Spurr who has also signed the same is a resident in the Town of Worcester but lately of Charlton and is a credible person, and that their statement is entitled to credit.
Nathl. Farnes Judge of Probate for the county of Worcester
I Shephard Wheeler Reg'd , Clerk of the Court of Probate for Worcester county do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Jonathan Putnam for a pension. in County of Worcester
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand & affixed the seal of the court of Probate, this Sixth day of September in the year of our Lord eighteen hundred and thirty two .
Shephard Wheeler Reg'd of said Probate Court in Massachusetts